Palmar Musculature | The Thenar Muscles

Palmar Musculature | The Thenar Muscles

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The video tutorial discusses the muscles controlling the wrist and hand, focusing on extrinsic muscles located in the forearm and intrinsic muscles within the hand. It highlights the role of intrinsic muscles in fine motor control and introduces the thenar muscles, which are responsible for thumb movements. The tutorial provides detailed explanations of the abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, and opponens pollicis muscles, including their origins, insertions, actions, and innervation by the median nerve's recurrent branch.

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